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The Verge
Mental health app privacy language opens up holes for user data
The Verge
7 min read · May 4th · The data in mental health apps is particularly sensitive.
The Intercept
Surveillance Dragnet: How Shadowy Companies Can Track Your Every Move
The Intercept
1 min read · May 4th · Smartphone apps make it easy for companies and government agencies to spy on billions of devices.
Shared by 30, including Tactical Tech, Thomas Pleil
EFF
New Surveillance Transparency Report Documents an Urgent Need for Change
EFF
3 min read · May 18th · The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has released its Annual Statistical Transparency Report disclosing the use of national security surveillance laws for the year 2021—and to no one’s surprise it…
Lifehacker
You Can Finally Get Your Personal Information Off Google
Lifehacker
2 min read · Apr 29th · The tech company is permitting the withdrawal of phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses.
Reader View · Shared by 12
Vox
The future of 911 is a little bit creepy
Vox
5 min read · May 19th · As the 911 system adapts to the age of cellphones, it’s gaining access to all kinds of new data, too.
WIRED
Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What It Means for You
WIRED
2 min read · May 7th · If you don’t like marketers (or anyone else) knowing when and where you read your email, Apple’s feature will help you reclaim some privacy.
Shared by 27, including Backchannel
Daily Mail Online
Warning issued over NewProfilePic app which sends data to Moscow
Daily Mail Online
4 min read · May 11th · Internet users have been warned not to use a New Profile Pic app as it sends the personal data, including facial recognition photographs to a company based three miles from Red Square in Moscow.
Reader View · Shared by 89, including Noely ⚡️🏐, John Nosta, Debra Mastaler, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦, Ste Davies
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VICE
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
VICE
6 min read · Apr 26th · “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 147, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Tactical Tech, Cory Doctorow, Yves Mulkers, Matt Navarra, Esther Schindler, Mathew Ingram, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Simon C, Mitch Joel, Noely ⚡️🏐, Jennifer Stirrup - Next: #WWDVC #AI #Data #keynote, Chris Skinner
WIRED
Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type—Before You Hit Submit
WIRED
4 min read · May 11th · A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form.
Shared by 122, including Juliana de Albuquerque, Howard Getson, Tactical Tech, Marsha Collier, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Backchannel, Matt Navarra
Guardian Tech
‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you
Guardian Tech
7 min read · Apr 27th · Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent
Reader View · Shared by 106, including Mark Kaigwa, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, John Koetsier, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Nige Willson, Patrick Sanwikarja, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Christian Hartmann, Andrew Spence, luis antónio santos, Tactical Tech
The Verge
Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
The Verge
4 min read · Apr 28th · Researchers tested Alexa with fake personas to see if ads followed them on the web. They did.
Reader View · Shared by 100, including luis antónio santos, Vicki Davis, wil shipley, Carissa Véliz, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Mark Hasebroock, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇
dataconomy.com
A privacy-driven ecosystem for a sustainable data economy
dataconomy.com
5 min read · May 8th · polypoly's privacy-driven data economy ecosystem overcomes the barriers to a global sustainable data economy by addressing each stakeholder's issues. ..
Reader View · Shared by 93
Daily Mail Online
Warning issued over NewProfilePic app which sends data to Moscow
Daily Mail Online
4 min read · May 11th · Internet users have been warned not to use a New Profile Pic app as it sends the personal data, including facial recognition photographs to a company based three miles from Red Square in Moscow.
Reader View · Shared by 89, including Noely ⚡️🏐, John Nosta, Debra Mastaler, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦, Ste Davies
WIRED
Elon Musk’s Twitter Buy Exposes a Privacy Minefield
WIRED
2 min read · Apr 26th · The social network’s user data and more will soon be at the whims of the world’s richest man. Who's worried?
Shared by 58, including AI, ipfconline 🇺🇦, Chaotic Goode, elpocas, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Kashmir Hill, Tactical Tech, Backchannel
The Verge
Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies after fines from watchdogs
The Verge
2 min read · Apr 21st · Europe gets the option to "reject all" of Google’s cookies
Reader View · Shared by 49, including Oliver Reichenstein, Tactical Tech, Matt Navarra
MIT Sloan Management Review
Preserving Privacy While Sharing Data
MIT Sloan Management Review
8 min read · Apr 26th · Using differential privacy to safeguard personal information when sharing data still requires a high level of expertise.
Vox
The future of 911 is a little bit creepy
Vox
5 min read · May 19th · As the 911 system adapts to the age of cellphones, it’s gaining access to all kinds of new data, too.
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VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
VICE
~11 min read · From 2017 · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 4161, including Ryan Boren, Nils Hitze, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Thomas Power, Björn Ognibeni, janfsauer, Michael Duergner, Parin Vachhani, Florian Hanke 🍎, David Bauer, Antonio Ramos, getAbstract, Faik Ersoy, ₵BZ, Markus Merz, Stowe Boyd, Matthew Turland, Damien Van Achter, Helmi, Andrea Desiato
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
Gizmodo
9 min read · From 2017 · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
Reader View · Shared by 711, including Mike Butcher, Thomas Pleil, Oriol Farré, Esther Schindler, Jane, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Martin Stabe, Mark Kaigwa, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Dominik Grolimund, Markus Maurer, Ron McIntyre, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Kashmir Hill, Chris Messina, Bjorn Larsen, Nicolas Berg, Ralph Hutter
The Guardian
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber surveillance weapon
The Guardian
9 min read · 2021-07-18 · Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests
Reader View · Shared by 700, including Tim Copeland, Alex Tabarrok, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, Chris Heilmann, Carissa Véliz, David Ndii, Carl Zimmer, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Maarten Lambrechts, Sascha Venohr, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Thomas Power, Vinny Lingham, Steve Faulkner, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, hakan, Ian Schlakman, John Koetsier
The New York Times
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?
The New York Times
20+ min read · 2021-03-18 · When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
Reader View · Shared by 685, including Nick Lüthi, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Ste Davies, Gerry Gaffney, Kashmir Hill, almagentia369, Mathew Ingram, jean marc manach, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Matthew Green, Kevin Roose, Evan Selinger, Cade Metz, zach lieberman, Margaret Sullivan, Jonathan Kogan, Golan Levin 🇺🇦, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Roemmele, BenYT
The Atlantic
China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-07-29 · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 664, including Bob E. Hayes, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Evan Selinger, Anita Leirfall, Nir Eyal, Paul Roetzer, hardmaru, Oniropolis, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Ed Yong, zeynep tufekci, Paolo Pedercini, Gerd Leonhard, Sam Harris, Joss Fong, Brian Roemmele
Fast Company
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
Fast Company
5 min read · From 2018 · With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Reader View · Shared by 599, including Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth, Gideonro, designshard, Brian Roemmele, Liliane Ferrari ™, 👑Sir Lord Travis Wright, Web3 Speaker + #VeeCon, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), David Cohn, Korben, Mike Butcher, David Dias, Thomas Power, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Gerd Leonhard, MIT CSAIL, Klaus Eck, Howard Getson, Tristan Nitot 📱🎙🌿🚲, jean marc manach
Guardian Tech
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
Guardian Tech
8 min read · From 2020 · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
Reader View · Shared by 590, including Johannes Lenz, Katja Evertz, Mark Kaigwa, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jansnet, Brian Ahier, Jane, Howard Getson, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Rob Go, Oliver Raduner, henrik, Faik Ersoy, Merkstatt, Joshua Walker, Matthias Lampe, Luca Like, Josep M. Ganyet, Jonathan Kogan, Christian Müller
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
The New York Times
~20 min read · From 2019 · What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
Reader View · Shared by 573, including Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Sam Harris, Khoi Vinh, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Robert Scoble, Cory Doctorow, Rene Ritchie, Gerry Moran, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, John Battelle, Randy Olson, Chris Messina, Rami Ismail (رامي), Jeff Atwood, zeldman, Felix Salmon, George J Huba PhD, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mathew Ingram, Hilary Mason
signal.org
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
signal.org
1 min read · 2021-05-04 · Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility…
Reader View · Shared by 569, including Eli Pariser 🏞📲, T. Greer, Amanda Webb - Digital Marketer 👩💻, emily bell, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, IAPP, Dr. Alec Couros, Matt Navarra, Richard Gutjahr, Aral Balkan, John Battelle, Rami Ismail (رامي), ツ, Ste Davies, Chaotic Goode, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, David Walsh, Eric Barker, Mark Kaigwa, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨
